Post by "Doc"Hammer on Jun 22, 2012 11:33:12 GMT -5
Recently we moved into a much smaller house and had to move my tower and antennas. We had to sell our house..Suffice it to say everything got downsized, including my ability to put the tower back up as we are now in a rental property. The landlord said he didn't mind me putting the antennas up, but I was limited to 25 feet in height (adjacent power lines and poles) and he didn't want anything attached to the house.
The yellow guy rope is for visibility to keep folks driving down the alley from hitting the masts...My vertical HF antenna and my 2 meter were not that much of a problem, however I was sad to not be able to put up a beam because of the lack of aerial real estate. I built a half wave dipole awhile back for 10 meters so I went to work adapting it over for use on 11, as well as 10...Got it up in the air (horizontal) and it worked great. (104 inches on each element) I always wondered if it would work as a true directional, so I put it at one end of a 60 inch aluminum boom and mounted a 116 inch long reflector on the other end. Works great...not exactly a beam, but it really shows some good rejection off the backside on recieve. Worked a bit of DX down south into Texas yesterday with it and am quite satisfied and the landlord approves... Am fine tuning it now. The SWR on 11 meters is Flat on channel 22 and 1.9 at 26.865...its 1.9 at 27.800 on the upper end...now if I could just get to 28.585 on the upper end without having to use a tuner...an ongoing experiment...
The yellow guy rope is for visibility to keep folks driving down the alley from hitting the masts...My vertical HF antenna and my 2 meter were not that much of a problem, however I was sad to not be able to put up a beam because of the lack of aerial real estate. I built a half wave dipole awhile back for 10 meters so I went to work adapting it over for use on 11, as well as 10...Got it up in the air (horizontal) and it worked great. (104 inches on each element) I always wondered if it would work as a true directional, so I put it at one end of a 60 inch aluminum boom and mounted a 116 inch long reflector on the other end. Works great...not exactly a beam, but it really shows some good rejection off the backside on recieve. Worked a bit of DX down south into Texas yesterday with it and am quite satisfied and the landlord approves... Am fine tuning it now. The SWR on 11 meters is Flat on channel 22 and 1.9 at 26.865...its 1.9 at 27.800 on the upper end...now if I could just get to 28.585 on the upper end without having to use a tuner...an ongoing experiment...
